Drugs & Media New Perspectives on Communication, Consumption, and Consciousness

Prologue: Defining Our Terms IntroductionPart 1: Consciousness Technologies: The Environmental Properties of Drugs and Media Chapter 1: Drugs: The Intensions of Humanity - Lance Strate Chapter 2: Drugs as Environments: Being Inside What is Inside Us - Corey Anton Chapter 3: Perceptual Amplifiers and Inhibitors: Some Parallels between Modern Media and Drug Use - Robert C. MacDougallPart 2: Relationship and Identity Transformation: The Environmental Effects of Drugs and Media Chapter 4: Sex-Drug Technologies: A Media Ecological Approach to Birth Control and ED Drugs -Valerie V. Peterson Chapter 5: ED Drugs and the Re-making of the Real Man - Robert C. MacDougall Chapter 6: Recreational Dubs: Constituting Apple's iPod Cult - Brett Robinson Part 3: Selling Drugs, Pushing Media: Advertising, Consumption, Diagnostics and Dissemination Chapter 7: Pediatric Bipolar and the Media of Madness- Jonah Bossewitch Chapter 8: Treat her with Prozac: Four Decades of Direct-to-Physician Antidepressant Advertising -Cristina Hanganu-Bresch Chapter 9: The Extended Pharmacist: Entering the Era of Remote Drug Dispensation and Pharmaceutical Counseling -Phil Rose and Ainsley MooreChapter 10: Media Peddlers, Pushers, and Pharmacists: Toward a Producer-Intention Model of the Media -Brecken Chinn Swartz Part 4: Psychopharmacological Approaches to Understanding Communication TechnologyChapter 11: Media Ecological Psychopharmacosophy: An Ecology of Mind for Today -Ronan Hallowell Chapter 12: Psychoactive Media -John P. SkinnonPart 5: The Road Ahead Chapter 13: Environmental Engineering for Ecological Balance - Robert C. MacDougallChapter 14: Epilogue: Epigenetics, Mirror Neurons, and a Few New Prescriptions on the Horizon - Robert MacDougall List of ContributorsIndex

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